thiopie : les obstacles persistants la paix
- Date:2026-04-01 - Type :BLOG
- Authors:Sonia Le Gouriellec
Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) and is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the Universit辿 catholique Lille, Faculty of Law. She was previously a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Strat辿gique de lcole Militaire (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence, where she oversaw the sub-Saharan African region. Besides being a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, she is also an associate researcher at the Fondation pour la Recherche Strat辿gique (FRS) and the Chaire Raoul Dandurand. She is a member of the editorial board of the Annuaire Fran巽ais des Relations internationales (AFRI) and the Revue internationale de politique compar辿e (RIPC). She co-manages the security section of the Observatoire du multilat辿ralisme et des organisations internationales and the C3RD research on security.
Being a specialist in security studies, Sonia Le Gouriellec focuses her work mainly on peace and security issues in Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa, and the foreign policies, strategies of small states and decentring in international relations. She has published Djibouti: la diplomatie de g辿ant dun petit Etat with the publishing house Presses universitaires du Septentrion (2020), G辿opolitique de lAfrique in the series Que sais-je? collection (Presses Universitaires de France, 2022), Pourquoi lAfrique est entr辿e dans lhistoire (sans nous) (in Hikari Editions, 2022) and, with Delphine All竪s and Melissa Levaillant, Regards crois辿s sur la paix et la s辿curit辿: une anthologie d辿centr辿e (in CNRS Editions, 2023). She has also published in International Affairs, Etudes Internationales, Afrique contemporaine, etc. She hosts the @MorningAfrika page on Twitter.